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Published: 2015-10-07 00:38:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 387; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 0
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Well, this one turned out... I don't know. The idea was much better in my head...I was initially going for that scene in the "When The Sinner" video where Ingo is sitting on the table and the guys are arguing with some dudes in suits. Didn't exactly happen. xD
Helloween split from Noise Records in either 1990 or 1991. I don't think they toured at all in 1990 because of it.
Michael Kiske, Michael Weikath, and Ingo Schwichtenberg.
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Don't quote me on fine details but Noise essentially screwed our Pumpkins over BIG TIME. Huge court battle and from what I've found, our boys lost said battle and were legally not allowed to play or record as Helloween for two solid years.
.....which makes me REALLY wonder how the news that Noise Records is re-emerging might be taken.
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Ah, so that's what happened... I think I'd heard something like that once or twice.
And oh... my... Noise is really coming back? Wow. I have mixed feelings about Noise re-emerging. I don't really like what they did to Helloween, but at the same time, there were so many great bands on the label in the '80s.
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Yeah, it was to do with what was essentially (at least from what I've found) a crappy contract that wasn't entirely fair to the boys. So Weiki had said "Enough of this shit. We want better treatment." Cue the court battle and SLAM! "You can't play or record as Helloween for two solid years". Hence Markus' and Ingo's work with Doc Eisenhauer on the album "Alles im Lack".
Ingo guested on the track "Pharao" which is...really quite good even if my German still sucks and I can't understand much of it.
As it was though, it took a toll on all of them. I honestly think Weiki and Ingo were affected the most by it. Looking retrospectively on it, to me, it comes across like a single event that caused a complete spiral into a special kind of Helheim.
Yeah. An author-friend of mine had found the news and relayed it to me. I'm on the fence too -- On the one hand, they had hurt the Pumpkins so badly back in 1989-1991...
But on the other, it could mean a real chance for up-and-coming groups (of which I hope to be a part of.) Right now, Nuclear Blast is the biggest name for metal. I wonder how Noise is going to stack up as it re-emerges.
It's doing so under a larger parent, "BMG Rights Management".
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Michael Weikath said in the Walls of Jericho expanded booklet that one thing that really screwed them up were the bad contracts they had signed early in their career.
You know, I had completely forgotten about their work with Doc Eisenhauer until you mentioned it, so I'm listening to "Pharao" right now. I love it! I really want to sing along to that chorus but I can't understand a word! xD
Ingo's drumming is really great on it, too.
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I'll have to look for the Walls Expanded version then. This year, I'm determined to get the rest of my Rescue Seven into my collection and even if I have to have such things read out loud (given these eyes don't work, heh), I love hearing what has to be said.
Well. Most of it. Hearing reactions now when someone so much as speaks Ingo's name is a bit painful.
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